> I have had a similar model for a few months, only mine has a > dual core Athlon processor and XP Media center. It rocks - by > far the nicest laptop I > have ever owned! Your customer should be very happy with it.
Specs say "The dv9000t features the powerful Intel Core Duo and 64-bit Core 2 Duo processors" ... Hmmmm on the 64-bit part ... I guess that means it will run 32 bit apps in an emulator mode (?) > I did put the final verison of Vista on it when it went up on > MSDN. It says "Vista Compatible", but that doesn't mean that > it had drivers for everything on the Vista DVD, and since > some said "unknown device" I wasn't sure what to > look for. But the system ran Vista just fine without them. > Having 2GB of RAM certainly helps. Oh yeah! I have 1gb on this XP/PRO machine and it's worked out really well, so I'd expect 2gb to cut down paging quite a bit (I can't wait for the day when it's ALL solid state :) > I'm just not a big fan of Vista - after two weeks I restored > XP. Do let us know what they think of it. I'm ho-hum about Vista itself, but very concerned that we don't have any problems deploying apps on it. > The weekend before the Vista launch I went to Frys and got > one of their 'clearance' notebooks or my wife - ones priced > to move because it had XP and they needed the room for the > Vista machines they were putting out later that week. She's > thrilled with her new Compaq and couldn't care less about Vista. That's what I would have done, but my customer just loves the latest and greatest! > Lou _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
